OTOH, back when I took drivers ed in high school in the mid Sixties, our teacher had an interesting teaching aide to show what can happen in a crash. It was a bent hard plastic steering wheel. The kicker was that it also had teeth marks in it, about a quarter of an inch deep dug into it by some poor sap's middle front teeth.

'round here, some woman crashed into a telephone pole hard enough to break it. Took out the power in half the town. Car still ran, so she ran from the cops, successfully. Circles all the way around the town, goes back to the bar she came from...a block from the scene, with police still there, in her wrecked car.

Aulus:OTOH, back when I took drivers ed in high school in the mid Sixties, our teacher had an interesting teaching aide to show what can happen in a crash. It was a bent hard plastic steering wheel. The kicker was that it also had teeth marks in it, about a quarter of an inch deep dug into it by some poor sap's middle front teeth.

I can't believe they were allowed to beat your faces with a plastic steering wheel.

The Jami Turman Fan Club:'round here, some woman crashed into a telephone pole hard enough to break it. Took out the power in half the town. Car still ran, so she ran from the cops, successfully. Circles all the way around the town, goes back to the bar she came from...a block from the scene, with police still there, in her wrecked car.

Drunk people are geniuses, truly.

I was lucky enough to have a conversation with a very drunk Russian sounding lady after she managed to roll her SUV on its side and break a telephone pole in half rather spectacularly as the car was 50-100 feet past the pole.

Me: How much have you had to drink?Her: (I forget exactly what she had) Four drinks and two beers!Me (waving over a police officer): Do you want to tell the officer here what you just told me?Her: Sure!